Iran terrorist threat underlined by significant UK arrests

Published May 5, 2025 12:48pm ET



In a striking example of Iran’s continuing terrorist threat to the West, United Kingdom authorities arrested eight men in two separate operations on Saturday.

The first operation saw five men, including four Iranians, detained in five different areas of England. They were arrested on suspicion that they intended to “target a specific premises.” Those premises have not been publicly identified but are understood to be related to the Jewish or Israeli community in London.

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